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mediate forms at all, and between them fraud. (See Piltdown Man Fraud, the;
and amphibians there exist enormous Nebraska Man Fraud, the and Nean-
fundamental anatomical and physiologi- derthal: A Human Race.)
cal differences. Despite all the research For example, the Neanderthals (Ho-
that has been conducted, not a single mo neandertalis), which evolutionists
fossil has ever been found to fill this suggest were a transitional species bet-
gap. 97 (See Transition from water to ween apes and human beings, were actu-
land thesis, the.) ally human, as their genus name implies.
They emerged suddenly in Europe
100,000 years ago, and disappeared, qu-
Cultural Evolution ickly and silently, some 35,000 years
Myth, the ago, or else were assimilated into other

Paralleling their hypothesized biolo- human races. The only difference betwe-
gical evolution, evolutionists also sug- en them and modern human beings is
gest that mankind has undergone a cultu- that their skeletons were rather more
ral progression from the primitive to the massive and their average skull volumes
more advanced. They relate a great were slightly larger.
many narratives of no scientific validity Today, almost everyone agrees that
in line with human evolution, which the Neanderthals were a human race. For
consists of no more than an imaginary a long time, some evolutionist paleoant-
family tree, and conjectures about the li- hropologists regarded these human be-
ves of people in the Paleolithic, Mesolit- ings as a primitive species, although sci-
hic and Neolithic ages. entific findings have shown that Nean-
The idea of human evolution is to- derthal Man was no different from the
tally fictional: In order for such a family stockier humans who can be seen wal-
tree to exist, apes must have gradually king the streets today.
evolved into human beings, and the rele- The University of New Mexico pale-
vant fossils should have been found. But oanthropologist Erik Trinkhaus, regar-
in fact, there is a clear gulf between apes ded as an eminent authority on the sub-
and man. Features such as their skeletal ject, writes:
structures, skull sizes, and walking on Detailed comparisons of Neanderthal
two legs or four, clearly distinguish apes skeletal remains with those of modern
from human beings. It is now recognized humans have shown that there is nothing
that the supposedly intermediate forms in Neanderthal anatomy that conclusi-
between ape and man proposed by evo- vely indicates locomotor, manipulative,
intellectual, or linguistic abilities inferi-
lutionists (Australopithecus, Homo habi-
or to those of modern humans. 98
lis, H. erectus, etc.) are simply biased in-
terpretations, distortions and outright Nonetheless, evolutionists still des-

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